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NOTIoni Books, Periodicals, MnjvizirMsa. &c Uro Hot to ba Taken rrcnTho Libv.iy v.lhout p-: miioion. An; ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. oikj , ivJ u,;ty of 'juch offense, will b osecution. VOL. ASTOKIA. OKKGON. PKIIMY, MAKCH 8, 1901. NO. 58 am The Superior Ranges ARE . . . ACKNOWLEDGED RV All WHft IIAVF mJS" USED THEM TO BE WITHOUT FAULT For Sale In Astoria Only by the ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. AHTOKIA, OHI2CJON iff Book Bargains .MM) Cloth Hound Hudkn, (mkkI it 51 Titti-fi. l5iu.linKnn.l Authors. .. . lOr I Just the Kind for These Long inter livenings Fivc-VoltitiH' Set of Kipling, Uus.mll, Holing llenty.Memle 7C Ppr pt and other good uutliom .... V J vl OLl GRIFFIN & REED AMERICAN BISCUIT COMPANY'S Macaroons, Walnut Creams, Arrowroot, High Teas, And Many Others, Fresh and Crisp. R ALSTON'S HEALTH FOODS, ALL VAKIBTICS 11 FISHER'S REST " CORVAUIS FLOUR CHASE 0 SANBORN'S FINE COFFEES ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. Fishing Supplies Headquarters LOWEST PRICES. Foard 8 Stokes Co. ' 431 BOND STREET, between Ninth and Tenth Streets NAPOLEON Was the World's Leading General WE ARE Astoria's Leading House FOR Stoves and Rangesm W. J. Scully, C. ARD, KAISER WOUNDED BY INSANE MAN Struck In Check by Piece of Iron and Lost Much Blood. CONFINED TO HIS ROOM fimptror Preserved Eitrtordlairy Composure -Wn Driving, to Rsllwsy SUtloi When AltuM - Mi As ullint Ctptired. HKKMN, March 7. Tin? opinion ) re- vails Hint the iiiH-r'r w ill suffer rnu-h pnin ainl ir.ljiilily mme fever and In Itiiiiiiniilli'ri for u few duyn and that It will MHiiilr.. ut If ml ii fortnight before tile Wound H lil'Blf'l. I it rich Wetland, who threw tlx il- n( Iron ini.i thf emperor r. ar rive. In thought t.j be demented. I'ri.f. Vuii itrgitnin nan ordered the m In which tin- t-.up.-ri i Is t be ; -.t dink 'iicil l.- iiuH. f thi- danger that lilii --tj may be nffecti I, After III.- mitriii!" tin- tmp'Tor i r . -rr. i xtruordl i'iry iomKuri' and l trivial no sign of thf pain he miit have ii'iir.-, frin such u blow. It Win dlily wh-rt II 111 lie hoy ut tile Fliitl'iti nrliiintii): "l'k' thf emper- r Is hli- ding," that a tni-iiiln r of unit wim illr.'rt.'il to tlf iii) thf wound. rllf on lit lil'hii) WIIH Kill h tlllll llli'lf nTf li'un'l H'.iinn i-v -ii on hln tnaJ.'Hty'ii louk. STdHY TJIK ATTAfK. ohll-il to k i to hl bfl fr a f w ilMyK. The pn-iiI'lMt alio . fXiirmndl horror ut'thn damnable act, and call'd f ir throe rhf-m for hi majfuty, which irf fdven with nitliunlHKin. Kmpi-rt-r Wlllliitn rwwlvfd th? Irnpr hit hrttif'dl ir, I'ount Von Hulow, In aiidii'tu-' .it noon lluy. woor, fmowiciiK' ahwwiation. filllifiii Klfctfd und iff lima r'hoH.-n an NfKl I'laie of Mtnjt. I'KNDLKTON, Ore., March ".-The NorthwfKi Wiml Orowrrii' Aiwlailon I'lowd toiila-hi. Ili-lena, Montana, wan a.'l.'ftfd an thu nfxt plaf of nvtlnB. T. rowcru, rf Helena, waa elfcied ptvaldi-nt. Th? following vic(-prnldentH wfrr i hom-n: O'-orce Y ung, f Thf rain; Kcnnftli McLean, of Mllea Cfty, M.mt.; A. K. Lfro, of Walla Walla; Hobfrt Aiken, of Hoine; John Hinlth. of Hull Lake; Dr, J. Wllwon. of Douk'.uhh, Wy omlntf. Meinljern of the fxecutlvt- cninriilt tf : Hum Ciirn ron, of North Yakima. Wanh.; J. N. Willlammm. of Trim vlllf. rf.; (i. O. (iruwell. of lillllntcH, Mont.; Flnlay McK'-nzlf, of Caldwell, Ida.; II. F. Hnund.ru. of Salt Iik-; Tim Kinm-t. of Kk SprtnK"). Wyo. Hxreturv and treanurcr, J. W. Uallcy. of Portland. Thf ImihIh of r"pnaentuilon wun ehaiiK'd frm onf del' Ratf for ea h M. (hki nli.fp to one for cH'.'h to'. The coiNtltuilon waa rfvl.K'iJ h(inrlti t'i' tin of :h" annua) m-tliiK' from Man h to February and (fivlntc the nerrtary a niilnry of five hundred d"llara a::d ud'lInK the ilutl'-M of treasurer to hln olllcf. ASKS FORTUNE FOR Absurd Damage Claims Presented Against China. NEGOTIATIONS PROGRESSING ;i;;JAT 'VI0 DISCOVKUKK I'll' Dreim Story From Tan-ma MaivfliM U.-llin of pp-hlstoric Hi e. of HKltUN, March ".-While Kmp'ror William wan drlvliiR from the Hitha- kell.-r to the railroad ptatlon here y.n- l.-rilay a workman named IMtrlrh Wel land threw a plm-e of Iron Into hla muj- mty'a cunliiK''. atrlklnn; the emperor. Welluml va lmtrdlntey arried. WclUnd. who In an epileptic, nave eon fui'l unswi-ra !) the police rcKardlliR hi motlvcii. In the attack the emror wig" "truck t.n the chick JuhI h low the rl(fht eye. He wan not m-rloimly Injured, and r fr.ilf..: fii in comm. ntliiR upon the sub ject. The burKomnstiT w'lw nccom- panled a mimbi-r of the M iff to the ta tlnti pointed out that bin majeaty's i h. ek wu! blei'dlnif. Th - aiwnllant Emperor William. In tryiiiK to tcape, fell under the horws of the wort rldliiK behind the car- rume. The eaort hand. A the man over to the polio, luirlna; an examination at the town hall he Htm. -red from a v- et.il . tilleinlo fltx. During rhe Intervals between tlnie attucka he replle.l to hcv- eral .iieHtliina but did not give out any Important Information. The mo tive of the outraf wim evident when the locket of primmer were aearch cd. medlcnnienta found In the pitoket kliaw ln(f that hf had been a chronic suf ferer from epileptic f)tn. He pretends to know nothing of the occurrvnee. Ho In evidently weak-mlr.ded. Afr r the Hurg.'oiH' vlnit to Ms mnj estv a bulletin wa Indued aa follows: "The w mud ia In the right cheek, and about an In. h and a half long. It pa.ws ver the slgomn and penetrates to th. bone. It has the character of a contused wound. There h is been much bleeding, but the wound has been closed with banliiglng without sewing. The emperor posed a fairly good night; Is five frm headae':)'', and his general condition Is good. "LEl'TIIOLn. "BE HO MANN, "ILDKIIO.." The mpror has been obliged to for. -go his projected visit to KoenlgHboig. fount Von Hall"strem. president of the relchstng, in commuulcntlng to that body today the news of the attack on Emper.ir William, expressed in behalf of the house the .mrror felt nt the abominable act. thanked God fur hav ing presrved the 'mpcror and coun try from a grievous misfortune, and ;iiayid that their bc'.oved monnreh might soon be restored to health and that God would keep his majesty un der his protection. Th.' members of the relohstag In at tendance stooil aunng me pivsuieiu s speech. The Socl iI Democrats were not present. In the lower houe of the Prussian diet the pr'sldent. llerr Von Kroooher, nin.ninced that the emperor's wound was not serious, but that he would be TA'MA. Mar--i 7 The town of Chehallf Is exelt f.1 oyer the reported dlhcovery of an Iminenxe cave In the nor Yuan ha also issued a proclamation Chinese Alain Permitted to Proleti Chrliti ally-Others Wirsed A(slast Mo lesting Then - Rnsslsis Fire British Coosnlite. PEKIN, March ".-The mi.ilst'.rs' commitfe completed Us report and the general principle to be adopted In the taa"H of Ind-mnltl'n la based upon la as In harmony with the Homan and Eng lish systtms. A 'man of high r.pute chir.-u $10. 0K each for his own, his wife's and her daughters' nerves and ll'O.WO for prop erty d'stroyeti. whetvas It Is known that the Utter estimate Is more than thrice the vlue of all. The negotiations, Mr. Hockhill says, are going on well and he see no pa son why they should not b? completed In two months with th-- exception of the commercial treaties, which will probably take a long time. BANDITS IN MANCHrUIA. VANVOl'VKK. 15. 0., March 7 In Shantung province, Gjvtrnor Yua i has anrulled the recantation pledges of na tive converts. In the province are twenty thou!and Komun Catholic con vert and fifteen thousand Protesunt natheu. Lust July proclamations were Issued thrjugh.nit Shantung calling uinin all Christians to recant. Gover- i astern part of Invis county. Explor ation was made a distance of live miles, revelling strange and wonderful sights. After entering a lower passage beneath the main ca,vrn, the explorer came to a subt-Trnmnn lake. t'p.xi the pebbled lumen were found boati of an cient and strange make, some petritled. other partially s. In one of the smull fsmis of the first cavern wt're found the r 'in iliis of tii humun beings. bth plants in size, th.' man 7 feet 10 Inch'-s. ;he w.man a few ln-hes less. Ilnth bo II. -s were reported either frozen stiff or inummlfied. Hammers and drills of bra.! were found. The elaborate work must have taken many yvirs and is apparently d-m-' ages igo by a prehistoric rave. IN NATIONAL SENATE. Morgan Concluded His Sevch Abrogation of Claytoti-ltulwer Trxaty. for WASHINGTON. March 7-The dis turbance In the s-ate over the as signment of the best seat on the Demo cratic side of the chamber to Senator MiHVmtis, a Republican senator from Maryland, has been iiited by a trans fer. Senator IMtfeld falls heir to the coveted place and Senator MeComas taken Senator Teller's seat on the Ke publican aide of the chamber. Teller going tj Heltfeld's old sent. At today's session Senator Morgan of Alalmma, i-oneluded his speech In support of his resolution declaring for the abrogation of the Cluyton-Hulwer treatv betw-vn the I'nlled States and Great Britain.' His per.'iM'l n was pathetic. He had dev t-?d the l)0!t vears of his official ll.'e, he nil, to ad.nnoe the construc tion of the Nicaragua lan.tl but now he did not exp.'.-t to s,e work uiHn the great waterway begun. Commission, Brokerage, Cuntom Houio Broker. ASTORIA. ORE Insurance and Shipping. Afeut W. F. 4 Co, and Paolflo Kxpress Co s. ktn slnc he learn ?d frum the lips of his little child the iitory of the awful crime, The capture of the fugitive I" but a matter of' time, for the blood hound that are being wwd took up the trail promptly. Nothing can save the pursued n-gro If captured. The crime wa committed early last night while Mr. Younger was away from hi home and at work In a field near by. There wan no one to tell the tale, save a little 3-year-old child. A big negro knocked mamma down and dngd her away." the child told Its father when he returned from hl work. Frantic with grief, Younger began a search and found the body of his wife In the bushes near the houae. Her throat had been cut and there wan evi dence of a terrible atruggle between the dead woman and the negro. The alarm wan given at once and fully 200 men. all well armed, started In pursuit of the murderer. All night the men Mlowed the baying blood hounds and today they believe they are near their Quarry. The Youngern are among the most highly respected people In this county. MONTANA DEADLOCK. Balloting Still Going on at Thin Morning. 2 O'clock BATTLE RAGING IN SOUTH AFRICA Fighting Has Continued for Some Days. BUBONIC PLAGUE SPREADING UTAH LEGlSIATmE. Preparations Made for an Exhibit at Lewis and Clark Exposition at Tortland. SALT LAKE. March 7. Both branch es of the legislature today adopted reso lutions memomliting congress to make an appropriation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition ir the Northwest, to be held at Portland. Oregon, in 1903. A resolution wan also adopted author ising the go'vernor to appoint a com mission of three members to represent Utah and to arrange for an exhibit. REMOVAL SALE Commencing Monclny, February 4, We shall make the following pricos; Iron Beds with brass knobs $3iOO Iron Eeds with full brass roil 6.00 Extension Tobies $4.50 and tip Our Combination Book Cases and Writing Desk we mnko a 20 per cent discount from regular prices. Par lor CImirs Reduced in price. On Carpets, Rugs, Linoleum, Window Shades, we give 10 per cent from regular prices, which includes. Sewinc. Laviusr and Paper. ICHARLES HEILB0RN & SON warning) natives agiinst molesting mis sionarles or converts. The Times publishes a story of a band of mounted Manchunan pibbers sur rounding a foraging party of the Jodh pore umctrs ana fine Japanese in fantry near Slumhal Kwan. One troop er escaped and brought reinforcements, who lust arrived in time. In one house three mi n had been l'-mmed in, one shot ad. the house afterward being fired and the two remaining tr'ers all but suffocated. Further on, three troopers were found defending three Indian cool ies with only two or three cartridges mainlng. Five Japanese infantrymen and seven MaJX-iiurian bandits were killed, the rest escaping Into a large village from which a hot fire was op ened. The next day a force of 100 cav alry and 400 infantry moved on the vil lage, but it was found to be diverted. The distress caused by the famine in Shensi Increases. Over 100,00 people are now said to be In danger of perishing from cold and hunger. The stations es tablished by the governor of the prov ince for the free distribution of rice are inadequate and suppli-'s intended for the relief of the starvtng are said to have been jitolen by dishonest officials. Ri'SSIANS KAN AMUCK. VANCOUVER. B. C. March 7. -The Japan Mail says: On February 10 the Russian soldiers behaved ylth great violence at Chee Foo. A whole squad of soldters became Intoxicated and were running amuck. They took more liberties around the British consulate tran the consul wish ed, and when thoy killed the consul's Chines? servant out of pure wantonness, the consul remonstrated and threatened to report them. Th' Russians were then ordered by the'r drunken commander to line up. They did so. The officer then shouted "Fire." waving his sword at the con sulate. Half of the Russians refused. The othr half fired siraight at the con sulate and the consul narrowly escaped being killed. FLOUR FOR CHINA. TAlOMA. Wash., March 7. An agent of a Chl.iese firm is now In Eastern Washington closing contracts for 50,000 barrels of flour per month for shipment to China during the year. PORTER WILL RETIRE. Ambassador Tower Will Be Transferred From 9t. Petersburg to Paris. UTICA, N. Y.. March 7. Word has been received at Watervllle, the home of Charlemagne Tower, U. S. ambas sador to St. Petersburg, that he Is to be transferred to the United States em bassy at Paris. Generil Horace Por ter, the present ambassador to Paris, Is to retire. HELENA, Mont., March . 2 a. m. Seven ballots were taken for Lnlted Stat senator in the evening session tonight. The last ballot stood: Car ter (Rep.), 32; the fuslonists scattered thus: II. Frank. 2?; W. G. Conrad. 1; Walter Cooper. 5; John McGinnls. 24; Franlj G. Hierglns, 1. A recess was taken until 11 o'clock. After assembling at 11:15 the Joint assembly it once began again ballot ting. On one ballot Frank had as high as forty-two votes, five short of elec tion. On the next ballot he fell off agnir.. Frank and McGinnls are tne leaders on the fu3ion side. The seventeenth ballot was as fol lows: Carter, 33; Frank, 26; McGlnnis, 22; Cooper, 5: Conrad, 3; Higglns, 1. Shortly after 12 o'clock, actual time, the Republicans objected to further balloting, claiming; irat the time for election had expired. Their protest was not heeded, howrver, the official clock having been stopped before it Indicated midnight. WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE. Early Passage of General Appppriation Bill Is Imperative. OLYMPIA. March 7. The senate and house exhausted their own (,-eneral ap propriation bills this evening. Thd sen ate bill carries appropriations of $2,057,- 261 and the house bill $2,075,547 A con ference committee will probably be ap pointed tomorrow! to harmonize tr.e two bills in order to permit of early f as sage of the general bill. Ther? has been considerable talk here of getting the medAiirp throueh both houses in time to pass it over the governor's veto, if necessary- Seventeen Republicans of the house voted against the measure and most of that number would prob ablv vote to sustain the veto. People Will Be Removed From Ooe-ThlrJ of Cape Town to Cleans It Twelr Thousand More Troops to Sail Within Week. LONDON, March 7. Whatever nego tiations are proceeding in Pretoria, and, Mr. Kruger declares they can only ba for an armistice, the government evi dently has no Intention of stopping the reinforcements. The war office issued a detailed statement this morning of the troops that are to call for South, Africa within the coming week, a total of 12,000. The casualty list reveals the fact that two officers were killed at Llchtenberg. March 4. Lord Kitchener's telegram, "Am sending reinforcements," was dat ed March 8; evidently, therefore, th fighting continued for some days and further advices are awaited with anxiety. According to a Daily Mail dispatch. Generals De Wet and Steyn have separated. PLAGUE CAUSES ANXIETY. LONDON, March 7. The progress of the bubinlc plague causes deep anxiety and apprehension in Cape Town. Th cape government has decided to re move the people from one-third of the city anl to sleanse It. HARRISON VERY ILL. INDIANAPOLIS. March 7. Ex-Pres (dent Harrison Istvery 111 with the grip. CUEAN CRISIS PASSED. Conservative Element Has Scored a. Victory In the Constitutional Convention. HAVANA. March 7.-The Cuban con stitutional convention met In secret ses sion this afternoon for formal discus-' sion of the Piatt amendment. The Con servative element scored a victory. It was decided to continue sessions of the convention and to refer the amendment to a special committee on relation with Instructions to bring In a report. It is generally believed 'that the cri sis. If any existed, has passed and by the time the committee reports the present excitement will have died out. Nothing in the nature of an uprising Is feared. LIBRARY FOR ST. JOSEPH. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., March 7. Andrew Carnegie has donated $25,000 for a li brary here. LIBRARY F: .. "KRT. MONTGOMERY, Ala.. March 7. An drew Carnegie has given $50,000 for a public library for this city. LYNCHING PROBABLE. Texas Mob Seeking Negro Rapist and Murderer. ST. LOUIS. March 7. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Corsicana, Tex., says: At the head of a mob of 200 citizens of this county, Conway Younger Is pursuing the nego who assaulted his wife and cut her throat last night. 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